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— Peter Singer"Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness."
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The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
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